the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience

Subject: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:50 am

Wow, THAT was fun !
I SO wish my CHMer family could've been there with me.

I totally would love it if we could create our own "predominately-Christian-music-swap-meet" similar to this secular one. Now THAT would be awesome !

Though this one was super cool, it had way too much anti-Christian, pro-satan crap everywhere. Satanic, occultic,and Jesus/God-hating stuff for sale. Some of the shirts these kids were wearing just broke my heart. Such hatred for Jesus, makes me wonder sometimes if they wear that crap as a "cry-for-help"... like maybe they're fighting the LORD who's knocking on their hearts. Walter Martin once said that if you throw a rock into a pack of angry wolves, the one that cries out loudest is the one who got hit. In other words, the person who is the most vocal and against Jesus, is sometimes the one who's closest to breaking and receiving Him into their lives. I guess it's possible, Idk.

But on a positive note, I got quite the haul at this shindig ! Records, CDs, pictures, books...
I was gonna start listing one album at a time on the thread for "New albums" but I have so many that I didn't want to end up holding that thread hostage. So I created this thread where I can post all the goodies I scored.

I'm not gonna post the autographed book I got yet, as i want to wait til Kerrick gets his in the mail and is surprised by the cool signature/drawing that Derek Riggs did. Once Kerrick gets his, then I'll post my picture of it :-)

so we'll start with some random CDs that I snagged from Bill and Scott at the ROXX booth. Such a great time hanging with them and chatting away. They're such humble souls.

ok, enuff talk... lemme start taking pix.... Bouncing smiley

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:57 am

Awesome, can't wait to see the pics!!!

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:13 pm

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These were the cool promo posters that they were giving away - Scott Waters signed the Ultimatum one :-)

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:20 pm

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Got there only 15 minutes early, and was only 5 people back from the doors... less than 10 minutes later, the line wrapped around the building !!!! So happy I got there at just the right time.. Whew !!

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Guilty/Forgiven wrote:: I'm not gonna post the autographed book I got yet, as i want to wait til Kerrick gets his in the mail and is surprised by the cool signature/drawing that Derek Riggs did. Once Kerrick gets his, then I'll post my picture of it :-)

Dude, you are THE MAN! Ah I am so stoked to get that book!!! Thank you again so much!!! sunny

I will be sure to post a picture or two here once it arrives. Very Happy

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:01 pm

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Met the very talented and humble soul, Mr Derek Riggs -creator of Iron Maiden's EDDIE.

Amazing artist ! His wife was there with him (she was a sweet old gal, both with a cool British accents).

We talked a while and he signed both mine and Kerrick's books with a cartoon of Eddie in his autograph.

OMG I also had him sign my Maiden album flat... so while he's writing all over the band's name, he said,in his British accent, "I always sign right over the band's name, cuz when the band members sign album covers, they always write over my artwork...So I always write over their band name" Haha -I had a good laugh on that one !!

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:09 pm

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Couple autographs - Scott Waters and Derek Riggs (note how he signed RIGHT over Iron Maiden's name -LOL)

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That's too funny about signing over the band's name! For some reason, that just seems so British. I love it. And it's really great to hear how neat of a guy Derek sounds to be. Stories like that make me enjoy the artists' work that much more. Thanks for sharing Jim!

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:18 pm

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Such an honor to meet the legendary vox man for Ultimatum and creator of No Life Til Metal website, Mr Scott Waters. We chilled out for a while as I asked him about bands/albums they had for sale... dude's a walking Metal Encyclopedia! !!

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:39 pm

Not a bad haul ! I had a financial limit, yet I still scored a heap of great stuff !! The ROXX booth was especially generous ! I snagged titles I've been wanting for years (but didn't want to pay 15+ bucks for them) most titles were only 3 bucks !!! Some were 5 and though the vinyls were 20 a piece, they still discounted my final total another 30 bucks off !!!!!!!

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Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:51 pm

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Here's my pile of goodies - I shall now begin to post the albums a few at a time....

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Holy dang that is quite the haul indeed! You need to make a list of everything too so we can see all that you got!

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:12 pm

Awesome, thanks for sharing. Are Ultimatum and Deliverance colored vinyl? I have the black vinyl of Heart of Metal and it was signed too, the pic of Scott has his signature over it.

Would have been so cool to see all of that stuff! Was Bill Roxx there too?

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:34 pm

Haven't opened em yet, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they only had black regular vinyl left.

Bill ? Bill who ?? Razz

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Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:28 pm

Nice haul bro. Looks like you had a great time.

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:25 pm

Here we go with all my scores - four at a time

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Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:45 pm

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I really really like that Century Sleeper album. It took a while to grow on me, but once it clicked...

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:00 pm

Right on ! It's gonna take me at least a month to get around to listening to all of these..... Whew !!!!

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Stupid cell phone ^
Evil or Very Mad

Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:12 pm

Ooh, Menchen - Red Rock is probably one of Bill Menchen's best albums, along with Dominion & Power which was released around the same time. Great pick.

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Subject: Re: the Heavy Metal Swap Meet experience Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:55 pm

Here's the vinyls I snagged.....

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